Hairpin



| MAISANO.

HAIRPIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 920.

- 1,357,333. 7 Patented NOV. 2, 1920- UNITED sr IGN A'I'IUS MAISANO, 0F 'WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

HAIBPIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 1920.

Application filed May 21, 1920. Serial No. 383,226.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IGNATIUS MAISANO a citizen of the United States, residing at Nilmington, in the county of New Castle and State of Delaware, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hairpins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in pins and more especially in that class ordinarily called hairpins, and technically known as hair fasteners. It is not of the class intended for ornament, but rather for concealment in the hair, its main purpose being to support the hair upon the head as dressed and arranged by the wearer and to hold it there so securely that under any ordinary circumstances it will maintain 1ts position without liability to become disarranged.

The ordinary two prong hair pin sold upon the market, While entirely useful, has

been found in practice to be unsatisfactory to those whom nature has favored with an abundant suit of hair, such persons having found it almost impossible to support their hair in place, whether the strands be coarse or fine, exbept by the use of a multiplicity of pins,sometimes as many as 18 or 20 being required for the purpose.

The primary object'of my invention is to produce a hair pin of such construction that this number may be greatly reduced,

for instance to one-third of that number,

the hair meanwhile being just as securely held in place as with the larger number of pins of the ordinary kind. V

Another object of my invention is to provide a hair pin of more than the customary two prongs, which may be formed of a single continuous piece of wire, without the use of solder or like material to hold the several parts together.

A furtherobject of my invention is to provide a hair pin having four prongs, the cen tral ones being practically parallel with one another and the outer ones slightly divergent, each of said prongs being provided with corrugations.

With these and other objects in view which may be incident to the use of the improvements, the invention consists of the parts and combinations thereof hereinafter set forth and claimed with the understanding that the several necessary elements con- Fig. 2 is a view of the edge thereof show I ing the corrugations in Fig. 1 to extend in a vertical plane.

Fig. 3 is a modified form of my invention showing the prongs of shorter length.

Fig. 4; is an edge view of Fig. 3 showing the corrugations to extend in a horizontal plane.

Fig. 5 is still another modified form of my invention, it being of the same general configuration as that shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 6 is an edge View of the pin shown in Fig. 5 showing the two inner prongs as having their corrugations extend in a vertical plane and the two outer prongs as having their corrugations extend in a horizontal plane.

Referring to Fig. 1, the hair pin therein shown is'constructed of a continuous piece of spring wine having four prongs 1, 2, 3 and 4, the two central prongs being each formed of a single wire doubled upon itself, and twisted for a short distance at the upper end ,as seen at 5 and 6. All the prongs, it will be noted, are provided at practically equidistant points, from the top downward, for about three-fourths their length, with similar corrugations extending in a vertical plane. The two central prongs are of the same length, the two outer ones however are slightly shorter so that in placing the pin in position in the coifi'ure the entrance therein is more facile than if the length of each prong were identically the same.

The prongs shown in Figs. 3 and 4 are made shorter in length than those shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and the corrugations extend hardly more than half the length of the pin. By reference to Fig. 4, it will be seen that all the corrugations are shown as lying in a horizontal plane.

' While the prongs shown in Figs. 5 and 6 are of the same general configuration as those shown in Figs. 3 and 4 there are several points of difference to be noted; the plane in which the corrugations lie is vertical in the middle prongs and horizontal in the outer prongs. Further the prongs 3 and 4: shown in Figs. 5 and 6 have each a corrugation 7 near its lower end.

Respecting the effectiveness of holding in place the coifl'ure by my device, there appears to be practically no difference between the design shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and that shown in Figs. 3 and l. By reason of the additional corrugations near the lower end of the central prongs in the design shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and also the difference in the planes occupied by the corrugations in the central prongs an in the outer prongs, this form of device has been found particularly effective and some users claim that the coiffure can be securely held in position with a less number of pins of'this design than with either of the others shown.

The pins shown are constructed of spring steel wire, but other material may be employed if so desired such as celluloid, aluminum, bone, etc., and to please the individual taste of the wearers, I make the pins in the several difierent patterns shown.

It willnow be apparent that l have devised a novel and useful construction of hair pins, which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description, and while I have, in the present instance, shown and described a preferred embodiment thereof which has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that the same is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing anyof its advantages,.and I desire, therefore, that it be limited only by the state of the tral prongs being provided near the closed 1 end of the hair pin with a twisted portion, said central prongs being further provided with additional corrugations near their lower ends.

3. A hair pin constructed of one wire comprising four prongs each with c0rrugations throughout its upper half, some of the corrugations lying in one plane and some in another, the central prongs being further prgvided with corrugations near their lower en s.

a. A hair pin constructed of one wire comprising four prongs of substantially the same length, some lying in one plane and some in another, each of the central prongs being provided near the closed end of the hair pin with a twisted portion, the. remainder of its length being formed of substantially parallel strands of plain wire. 5. A hair pin constructed of one wire consisting of four prongs of substantially the same length, each with corrugations, some of them lying in one plane and some in another, the two central prongs being provided near the closed end of the hair pin with a twisted portion, the remainder of its length being formed of substantially parallel strands of plain wire with corrugations near the lower ends.

In testimony whereof ll afiix my signature.

IGNATIUS MAISANO. 

